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Stefano Barone

25 Radiolarians Micromanipulated and Mounted by the Author on a Permanent Microscope Slide, 2018

Photomicrograph
Capture magnification x250; darkfield illumination produced from a Zeiss Axio Imager.A2 research microscope
Canon EOS 5D Mark III DSLR camera

Diatom Lab
Palazzo Pignano, Cremona, Italy


This photomicrograph shows 25 Radiolarians collected from marl, a sedimentary rock collected in Barbados, an eastern Caribbean island. They are fossil Radiolarians and have mineral skeletons.